Enterprise Architecture Design for VMware Horizon View 5.3

Agenda

Large scale administration

Storage design considerations

Architecture best practices

Large Scale Administration

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Overview

Benefits

OPEX savings with fewer pools to

manage in multi-thousand user

deployments.

No need to split pools on the basis of

insufficient host density, or insufficient IP

addresses in an address range.

Large Pool & Multi-Network Support OPEX Savings with fewer pools to manage

Large Pools: Eliminate 8-host per pool

limit – now 32 hosts with latest View and

vSphere 5.1

Multi-Network: Network within a pool can

be split with multiple network labels.

Initially offered via powershell API.

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Overview

Benefits

OPEX savings less admin time spent on

common operations

Reduced complexity of architecture &

less scripting with image updates for

pools supporting 24-7 operations.

Scale, Performance & Availability OPEX savings as deployments grow large

Enhanced VC Scale: Deploy pods of up

to 10k desktops with a single VC!

Reduce Time: Data caching for fast

Admin-UI response with large lists of

desktops and sessions

Improve Availability: Rolling-Refit keeps

min # desktops available during

recompose, refresh & rebalance ops.

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One vCenter Server and 10K Desktops

vCenter Server

ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi

View Connection Server View Connection Server View Connection Server

Desktop VMS

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vCenter Server vCenter Server vCenter Server

ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi ESXi

View Connection Server View Connection Server View Connection Server

Desktop VMS

Multi vCenter Server and 10K Desktops

Storage Design Considerations

Data Diversity

Templates

OS

Pagefiles

vSwap Files

User Data

User

Persona Corporate

Apps Anti-Virus

Definition Files

ThinApp

Packages

Parent

Snapshots

Master

Images

Full Clones

Replicas

Linked

Clones

App

Installers

User Installed

Apps

Security

Updates

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Storage Design Challenges

• Improperly sized storage implementations are difficult to fix

• Good user experience and user acceptance are critical for success

• Balancing burst IOPS and footprint

• Diversity of storage options make it difficult to make an informed choice

ESXi host RAM Solid state disk SATA hard drive

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IOPS vs. Footprint: The Bell Curve

There is a dramatic difference between IOPS avg to IOPS peak

• Avg Win 7 IOPS ~20

• Avg Win 7 boot storm IOPS ~300

• Avg recompose IOPS per VM ~600

Avg IOPS If you design for this

All of this IO is buried in latency

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Strategies for burst demands that don’t

break the bank

Acceleration products

In-storage block tiering

New storage technology

SSD

Flash PCIe drives

All-Flash arrays

Converged Web-Scale

All-in-one server, storage, and

virtual file system

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Add scale one x86 server at a time

Flat and simple datacenters

Software driven to reduce CapEx

Cloud and Web-scale Architectures Roadmap for Mainstream Enterprises

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Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform Improving Space and Power Efficiency

• Servers + Storage + Network = 42U

• Power Consumption = 6,800W

• Max VDI users per 2U = 5

• 2 Complete Blocks + Network = 5U

• Power Consumption = 2000W

• Max VDI users per 2U = 320

40% - 60% Cost Savings

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High Density Virtualization Clustering simplified

Compute 4x Independent server compute nodes

8x Intel CPUs (64 cores)

Up to 1TB of RAM

Dual 10Gbit Ethernet

4 Nodes in 2U

4 Independent Compute/Storage Nodes

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Predictable Economics and Growth

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Converged

Compute + Storage

Software-defined 1 Scale Out

100% linear horizontal scale

Predictable economics

Virtual control logic

VM-level awareness

Virtual Computing Platform

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Hybrid 3 Flash

Server attached

Performance optimized

Multi-hypervisor

Multi-cloud

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Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS)

Virtual Storage Control Virtual Storage Control

Virtual Machine/Virtual Disk

Flash HDD

Enterprise Storage

Clones, snapshots, replication,

compression, thin provisioning

Fastest Performance

Localization, tiering, deduplication

Hypervisor Agnostic

vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V

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Nutanix Elastic Deduplication Engine

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Real-time deduplication for RAM and flash

100% software-driven

Designed for scale-out

Extensible for all storage, including HDD

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VCAI + Nutanix Benefits (1 of 2)

Nutanix Shadow Clones feature makes a shadow copy of the Linked Clone replica

on the local storage of each Nutanix node

This dramatically improves read performance to the replica &

decreases the dependency on the IP network

• Shadow Clones

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1. Can be sized to suit your requirements (not limited to 2GB)

2. Data in Extent Cache is deduplicated – ie: More data in cache

3. Data is served locally without traversing Storage Network

4. Dramatically improves performance during boot/login storms

5. Enabled by default – just works! No configuration required

6. Complimentary to Horizon View VCAI Deployments

VCAI + Nutanix Benefits (2 of 2) • Extent Cache

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How fast are VCAI clones?

• Very fast! – Just Seconds per VM

Key Facts

1. No impact to the ESXi Host

2. No I/O impact to the storage

3. No impact to storage area network

4. Almost no disk space used for VCAI clones

Flexible N-way Protection

VM-Centric Workflows

Data Protection

Native Disaster Recovery VM-centric replication

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Hypervisor Environment Storage Performance

Alerting Summary

Intuitive. Beautiful. Insightful.

Policy Actions Virtualization Summary

Nutanix and VDI

Scale-Out

Multi-Hypervizor

Inline De-Duplication

Inline Compression

Data Locality

Native Disaster Recovery

Shadow Clones

Global Support / Local Depot

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